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Patient monitoring under an ambient intelligence setting
Springer - Series Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing, vol. 72In recent years there has been a growing interest in developing Ambient
Intelligence based systems in order to create smart environments for user and environmental
monitoring. In fact, higher-level monitoring systems with vital information
about the user and the environment around him/her represents an improvement
of the quality of care provided. In this paper, we propose an architecture that implements
a multi-agent user-profile based system for patient monitoring aimed to
improve the assistance and health care provided. This system mixes logical based
reasoning mechanisms with context-aware technologies. It is also presented a case
based on a scenario developed at a major Portuguese healthcare institution
An agent-based architecture for managing the provision of community care - the INCA (Intelligent Community Alarm) experience
Community Care is an area that requires extensive cooperation
between independent agencies, each of which needs to meet its own objectives and targets. None are engaged solely in the delivery of community care, and need to integrate the service with their other responsibilities in a coherent and efficient manner. Agent technology provides the means by which effective cooperation can take place without compromising the essential security of both the client and the
agencies involved as the appropriate set of responses can be generated through negotiation between the parties without the need for access to the main information repositories that would be necessary with conventional collaboration models. The autonomous nature of agents also means that a variety of agents can cooperate
together with various local capabilities, so long as they conform to the relevant messaging requirements. This allows a variety of agents, with capabilities tailored to the carers to which they are attached to be developed so that cost-effective solutions can be provided.
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Designing community care systems with AUML
This paper describes an approach to developing an appropriate agent environment appropriate for use in community care applications. Key to its success is that software designers collaborate with environment builders to provide the levels of cooperation and support required within an integrated agentâoriented community system. Agent-oriented Unified Modeling Language (AUML) is a practical approach to the analysis, design, implementation and management of such an agent-based system, whilst providing the power and expressiveness necessary to support the specification, design and organization of a health care service. The background of an agent-based community care application to support the elderly is described. Our approach to building agentâoriented software development solutions emphasizes the importance of AUML as a fundamental initial step in producing more general agentâbased architectures. This approach aims to present an effective methodology for an agent software development process using a service oriented approach, by addressing the agent decomposition, abstraction, and organization characteristics, whilst reducing its complexity by exploiting AUMLâs productivity potential. </p
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Delivering knowledge in the field: A telecommunications service provision and maintenance case
This paper proposes a novel approach to providing knowledge management services in a business
process wherein field engineers are the main process actors, providing and maintaining
telecommunications services. Cooperating multi-agents play a central role for the provision of
knowledge management services by integrating heterogeneous systems to collect related knowledge
for the execution of mobile tasks. The proposed system is expected to increase both the performance of
the mobile workforce and customer satisfaction by supporting and encouraging knowledge sharing
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